“I thin it is extremely odd that men think they can threaten members of the parliament in this manner, that they will simply be charged if they ask certain questions,” says Ágúst Ólafur Ágústsson, chairman of the trade commission of the Parliament.

In the letter that the lawyer of Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson sent Ágúst tonight it is demanded that he will not call the representatives to his meeting on Friday. It was stated in the news on RÚV yesterday that Ágúst called to that meeting, amongst other issues to demand answers from the representatives ofr the banks if any of the banks financed the purchase of Jón Ásgeirs on 365 media as the situation has been clear on the media market.

Ágúst Ólafur says he will not bend to this demand of Jón Ásgeirs, as it is clear that this matter concerns the worried public and the parliament world if there has started a monopoly on the media market and if the government banks were a part in that. “But it is the banks responsibility to evaluate if there is bank secrecy at hand regarding this information or not. I am not asking men to break law but i am doing my job as a member of the Parliament,” says Ágúst. He says that the members of the Parliament have often asked questions and been denied answers. It is nothing new that members of the Parliament do not get information about issues that are secretive.

Ágúst Ólafur says that the threat of Jón Ásgeir is unbelievable, but doubts it has any example of these sort of threats before. “And one can ask oneself if he´s going to threat the media if they ask questions,” says Ágúst.

After the first news of that Jón Ásgeir bought 365 media he announced to all shareholders of 365 that they would be offered to be partners in the new company that bought the media.